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known for its
memorial shrines erected for
mortuary cults. Another, more unusual, form of
mortuary cult is an
urn with ash,
deposed at the home of the yet-living...
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Adipocere (/ˈædɪpəˌsɪər, -poʊ-/), also
known as
corpse wax,
grave wax or
mortuary wax, is a wax-like
organic substance formed by the
anaerobic bacterial...
- come to the
region under the
explanation that it was
delivering the
mortuary urn of the late
Turkish Amb****ador home, a
claim which was
dismissed by the...
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columbaria (a type of
mausoleum for
cremated remains) with
additional cinerary urn niches.
Mausolea may be
located in a cemetery, a
churchyard or on private...
- name
comes from the
custom of
cremating the dead and
placing their ashes in
urns,
which were then
buried in fields. The
first usage of the name
occurred in...
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members of the
House of Habsburg. The
bones of 145
Habsburg royalty, plus
urns containing the
hearts or
cremated remains of four others, are here, including...
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Second World War. The
remaining bottom is
still used for
urn graves today. The
chapel and
mortuary of the
Csepel cemetery were
demolished in 1970. In the...
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bearing an
urn,
which led to his mantra, "the
power of the
urn,"
allowing his main protégé The
Undertaker to
revive strength. His keeper-of-the-
urn gimmick...
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ceremony may
include burial in a casket,
burial sewn in sailcloth,
burial in an
urn, or
scattering of the
cremated remains from a ship.
Burial at sea by aircraft...
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Mortuary archaeology is the
study of
human remains in
their archaeological context. This is a
known sub-field of bioarchaeology,
which is a
field that...
